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Think thin A new study shows losing
Unfair trade A Letter to the Editor
Out of the box A new one-credit 3-D production
weight can improve mental functions like memory and attention span. Page 9
questions the U.S. trade laws in light of the Syracutie controversy. Page 5
I N S I D Es p o r t s
elective offers students a chance to work directly with innovative technology. Page 11
Unfabulous
Fab Melo’s first year at Syracuse didn’t live up to all the hype he received from scouts coming out of high school. But the center from Brazil continues to improve. Page 24
Art project donations aid Japan
Two alumni win Pulitzers in journalism By Mark Cooper Asst. Sports Editor
Nikki Kahn took photos of the tragedy during Hurricane Katrina and of the civil strife in Egypt. But The Washington Post photojournalist, one of two Syracuse University alumni who won Pulitzer Prizes for journalism on April 18, said nothing has come close to the devastation she witnessed in the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. “The magnitude of the destruction was incredibly hard to capture in a single photograph,” Kahn said in an email. “To witness the sweeping sea of crumbled homes and lives crushed beneath the piles of concrete was vast, and it felt like we’d discover a totally new neighborhood everyday we went out.”
By Marwa Eltagouri Staff Writer
Dozens of orange paper cranes float strung together in rows on the lawn between the Schine Student Center and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Each crane represents $2 that will go toward relief efforts for northern Japan, which was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami nearly a month and a half ago. The project has already collected more than $5,000 in one month, said Chao Dou, a senior architecture major. Some Syracuse University alumni were in Japan during the disaster and sent emails saying they appreciated the paper crane project, Dou said. “I’ve been getting a lot of personal emails from people I don’t even know,” Dou said. “Some of them are really supportive, saying ‘Thank you’ and ‘I’m glad you’re doing this.’” Students in the School of Architecture organized the project a week after the March 11 disaster. The idea behind the relief effort came from Dou, who worked with other students,
see pulitzer page 6
st uden t a ssoci at ion
Members share ideas on partial smoking ban
see cranes page 7
By Sean Cotter
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Staff Writer
Student Association representatives submitted their suggestions for a partial smoking ban on campus to the Tobacco Advisory Committee on Monday morning, SA Vice President Jessica Cunnington announced at Monday night’s SA meeting. The Tobacco Advisory Committee will present SA’s and other groups’ suggestions to the Wellness Committee, which will present its own suggestions to the university’s administration, SA President Neal Casey said. This is the first time there has been a concrete route in place for the smoke-free initiative to reach the Syracuse University administration, and the initiative has been in the
see sa page 7
To donate to the paper crane project, students can visit the website online at sucrane.wordpress.com.
lauren murphy | contributing photographer
Rock the runway
Maya powe and lizette lewis, sophomores in Fashion’s Conscience, model garments by Papaya in the organization’s eighth annual runway show and concert Saturday in Goldstein Auditorium. The fashion show, followed by a performance by rapper Wale, was the final event of FC’s annual Fashion Week. FC is a student organization that promotes multiculturalism and supports diversity in all aspects of the fashion industry. See page 11
For every $2 students contribute, the paper crane project will construct an orange crane and add it to the display on the lawn between the Schine Student Center and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The group’s goal is to raise $14,000 and produce 7,000 paper cranes. All of all donations will go directly to the Japan Societies Earthquake Relief Fund. Source: sucrane.wordpress.com